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1[blank_start]Anonymity[blank_end] in a research project is when neither the researchers nor the readers of the findings can identify a given response with a given subject.
- AAnonymity
2When names are removed from questionnaires and are replaced with identification numbers so that only the researcher can later link a response to a particular name, the researcher should tell the respondent that the information is [blank_start]confidential[blank_end].
- Aconfidential
3Deception in research:
- Aneeds to be justified by scientific or administrative concerns
- Bcan be justified with the Hawthorne Effect
- Cis never justified
- DA & B
4This late 1940s study used unethical methods on vulnerable people to test the effects of medications on STDs after deliberately infecting these subjects without consent. This study remained unknown in the U.S. until the early 2000s, wherein President Obama issued a formal apology
- AStanford Prison Experiment
- BBad Blood experiment
- CGuatemala Syphilis Experiment
- DTuskegee Syphilis Study
5Which of the following is not true about ideology?
- Ait offers absolute certainty
- Bit is highly partial
- Cit changes based on evidence
- Dit is blind to opposing evidence
6What is the purpose of an institutional review board?
- Ait ensures that research is methodologically sound and scientific
- Bit lobbies for more research money from the government and private agencies
- Cit makes sure that research involving human subjects is carried out ethically
- Dit ensures researchers do not misuse money given to them for research
7Which of the following ethical issues was not raised by the famous “Tearoom Trade” study by Laud Humphries on homosexuals?
- Aprotecting the privacy of respondents
- Bprotecting the research subjects from legal jeopardy
- Ccovert observation without informed consent
- Dall of the above were involved
8Research based on a political or ideological stance means that research findings are
- Ablind to alternative evidence
- Bdetached from moral values
- Cunfolding
- Dnegotiated understandings of reality
9Weber called the lack of intrusion of the researcher's own political position on research [blank_start]value-free sociology[blank_end].
- Avalue-free sociology
10Social scientists are totally or completely objective in their research.
- ATrue
- BFalse
11Objective social research is:
- Aa conditional/negotiated understanding
- Breplicable
- Ccompletely final
- Dneutral
12As a result of WWI, the [blank_start]Stanley Milgram Experiment[blank_end] studied human obedience on subjects with shock instructions. Subjects experienced psychological harm persisting years after the study ended.
- AStanley Milgram Experiment
13A great deal of learning about ethics is based on “famous cases.” Which of the following was a “famous case” in which poor black men were not treated but allowed to become disabled and permanently harmed in a Public Health Service study administered by the U.S. federal government?
- AStanley Milgram Experiment
- BGuatemala Syphilis Experiment
- CBad Blood or Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- DTearoom Trade
14The vast majority of published scholarly articles are [blank_start]value-free[blank_end] research. The Institute of American Values and the Bell Curve exemplify [blank_start]value-oriented[blank_end] sociological research.
- Avalue-free
- Bvalue-oriented
- Cvalue-oriented
- Dvalue-free
15The principle of voluntary consent in social research means that
- Aresearchers, when possible, must notify subjects that their participation is voluntary and that they can refuse to participate without penalty.
- Ba researcher uses deception in order to study a social phenomenon
- Cresearchers need to get permission from respondents to conduct an interview with a member of the opposite sex.
- Dresearchers studying public settings (malls, stores, street corners, etc.) do not need to notify subjects that they are being studied, because there is no expectation of privacy in public settings.
16Once people are told that their participation in a research study is voluntary, there are no ethical problems.
- ATrue
- BFalse
17Confidentiality means that
- Astudy subjects don’t know they have been studied
- Bresearchers and subjects don't know each other
- Cresearchers must not know their study subjects
- Dnone of the above
18Which of the following variables would not be of the ethical concern to an IRB?
- Asubject's sexual orientation
- Bsubject's marital status
- Csubject's social security number
- Dall of the above would be ethical concerns to an IRB
19Ethics are a consideration in which one of the following fields of research?
- Anatural sciences
- Banthropology
- Ceducation
- Dsociology
- Eall of the above fields require ethical consideration
20A researcher asks a group of teenagers who had previously been convicted of shoplifting to shoplift from a drugstore so he can observe the social dynamics of these skilled thieves. This researcher may be violating the ethical principle, which states
- Ado not place subjects in legal jeopardy
- Bdo not create new inequalities
- Cdo not cause harm
- DA & C
21Which of the following does not harm subjects?
- AHaving them face aspects of themselves that they do not normally consider
- Basking them to reveal their unpopular attitudes
- CAsking them to identify their deviant behavior
- Dallowing them to define themselves easily in a final report
- Easking them to provide demographic information
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- Sociology Quiz on Chaper 3 review, created by Suzette Guerrero on 15/09/2016.
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